What is rescue therapy?

life -threatening complications can sometimes occur during many types of health conditions. Rescue therapy is a term for any non -surgical medical treatment to alleviate these dangerous situations. They may often include drug treatment, but treatment is not necessarily limited to medicines. Common problems that can lead to a situation where rescue therapy may be required include asthma, heart problems and diabetes. Sometimes this term may apply to a change in combinations of multiple drugs used to treat the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) if the virus generates resistance to the drugs that has taken the individual. Asthma

is a health condition that can affect the ability to breathe normally, sometimes up to the point of asphyxiation. In these situations, rescue therapy may be required to open the lungs and airways. Common asthma therapy may include inhalation medicines such as corticosteroids. Steroid drugs act to reduce inflammation, allowing breathing the biography normally.

Cardiovascular conditions can lead to heart rhythms to heart attacks and other problems. Some cardiovascular problems may be treated with appropriate rescue therapy. These include drug injections that regulate electrical messages sent between cardiac cells or use of defibrillators or other electrical devices that try to restore normal heart rhythm.

cases of diabetes can sometimes lead to situations where rescue therapy is needed. Occasionally, a sudden increase in blood sugar may occur, leading to the potential of unconsciousness, so that the diabetic person cannot serve medication to treat. In these cases, insulin therapy may be required to convert excess sugar for storage and return to acceptable blood levels. Low blood sugar levels can also create risks threatening life and are often treated by using glucagon as a releasing drug as it can release storedÉ sugars in the blood.

bacterial and parasitic infections can sometimes be treated with suitable rescue therapy. Malaria can lead to brain damage, in some cases, if permitted to proceed, and treatment of treatment involving chlorquin can sometimes be used to quickly kill the parasite that causes this disease. Infections caused by bacteria Helicobacter pylori may have several phases of rescue treatments, starting with clarithromycin in many cases and to proceed to other antibiotics if initial treatment fails. Not all antimicrobial treatment are considered rescue therapies, because many of them do not include situations where the life of an individual is at stake.

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